# Would you go to the moon? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 12, 2008, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-to-the-moon/472398 "2008-11-12T19:19:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![History\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b19c9b/32.png) [@History\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/History_Geek)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-to-the-moon/472398/41 "2008-11-13T00:34:34Z")
Definitely. With no reservation. I’d do it even if some joker from NASA said, “We’ve got all this 1969-vintage Apollo gear just collecting dust and we decided you’re the guy to see if it still works.” In fact, that’s definitely the way to go: sitting atop a set of f’huge rocket motors in a little space capsule with a thermos full of Tang. No Beanstalks or these lighter-than-air-to-orbit jobs! Okay, I’d take modern electronics and stuff - but I wouldn’t compromise on the pure, 100% raw rocket power. Or the Tang. ---
**Author:** ![Frustrated\_Wonderer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a4c791/32.png) [@Frustrated\_Wonderer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frustrated_Wonderer)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-to-the-moon/472398/42 "2008-11-13T01:23:41Z")
Then Moon is too close! Take me to Mars! Hell, I’d go to Pluto if I could. It would be nice to do some distance viewing of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. I love astronomy. But to aswer your question, I’d say **yes** , but I would rather go farther. ---
**Author:** ![Omgalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/41988e/32.png) [@Omgalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omgalion)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-to-the-moon/472398/43 "2008-11-13T04:21:08Z")
I’d go, just to see the view of Earth from there. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-to-the-moon/472398/44 "2008-11-13T04:27:51Z")
> [@ellere](#): > > I’d go, just to see the view of Earth from there. I’m honored to have elicited one of your posts :). ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-to-the-moon/472398/45 "2008-11-13T04:55:00Z")
Hell yes, I’d go. Even if it meant certain death. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-to-the-moon/472398/46 "2008-11-13T05:41:01Z")
All the rest of you are first going to have to drag me out of the spacecraft screaming and kicking. I’ve wanted to go to the moon ever since I was a kid, a fact I attribute largely to having owned this book: [_You Will Go to the Moon_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Will_Go_to_the_Moon_(book)). It was so influential I bought another copy a few years ago (the childhood copy was lost long ago), just for kicks. It’s great. I particularly remembered a drawing of the kid floating out of his seat in the rocket flight between Earth and the space station. I thought weightlessness was the coolest thing ever, and desperately wanted to experience it. I was 12 in the summer of 1969 and excitedly watched the landing coverage and stayed up late to watch the first moon walk. Twenty years later, my office was about 200 feet from the real Apollo 11 Command Module and a real moon rock. And on the 20th anniversary of the landing, I met all three Apollo 11 astronauts and got their autographs in a book they wrote. So I think I’m a lot closer to having gone to the moon than the rest of you. Neener, neener. > [@The Scrivener](#): > > Might I suggest what might be the next best thing? The glossy photography book Full Moon… Strongly seconded. (Actually, it’s only the third best thing. The next best thing is working for years in close proximity to real Apollo artifacts and meeting astronauts in person.) ---
**Author:** ![phil417](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@phil417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phil417)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-to-the-moon/472398/47 "2008-11-13T05:58:34Z")
In a flash. I’ve wanted to be an astronaut ever since I watched John Glenn touch down. Now, at 55, I don’t know whether I’ve a lot to offer scientific research (can you knit in space? how does chocolate taste on the moon?), but I would love to be a lunar astronaut. If some commercial venture were to offer a lunar trip & I had the millions to spare, I would be in Houston before my check cleared. Love, Phil ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-to-the-moon/472398/48 "2008-11-13T05:59:44Z")
Yes and hell yes. My bag is already packed. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Klutz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captain_klutz/32/4993_2.png) [@Captain\_Klutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Klutz)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-to-the-moon/472398/49 "2008-11-13T06:25:40Z")
Yes, I’d go. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-to-the-moon/472398/50 "2008-11-13T06:25:45Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > So I think I’m a lot closer to having gone to the moon than the rest of you. May I place my mouth upon your genitals? ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-to-the-moon/472398/51 "2008-11-13T06:26:51Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > I would go to the Moon in an instant. > > And I would go to Mars even if I knew, prior to boarding, that it would be a one-way trip. > > Caveat: I have no children. That would probably change things. Probably. I agree with you **Cervaise** I would absolutely sign up and go for it. Yes, I’d miss my family and friends. But to be a pioneer? (I don’t have kids either, so that’s a big part, I know.) Bye Same Old World. Hi, Strange New Planet jumping experience! (With my luck, I’d volunteer to be on the ship that had telephone sanitizers\* and tried to use leaves for currency, but hey, I’d try!) \*We miss you, Douglas Adams! ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-to-the-moon/472398/52 "2008-11-13T06:27:02Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > May I place my mouth upon your genitals? If you’re attractive and female, yes. Otherwise, no. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/59ef9b/32.png) [@FlyingRat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRat)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-to-the-moon/472398/53 "2008-11-13T06:54:19Z")
> [@Creaky](#): > > Except there’s that peeing and pooping thing. > > How do the astronauts do that? > > Do they have, like, space bathrooms or do you have astronaut diapers or something? Seriously, I don’t know. The other day I watched the excellent documentary “In the Shadow of the Moon” which focuses on interviews with the original Apollo astronauts. Fantastic movie. But anyway, Buzz Aldrin (the second man on the moon) said that before he stepped off the Apollo’s landing pad and onto the moon’s surface, he took a moment to “take care of business”, as it were-- filling the urine bag. 🙂 He then said that that was one “first” on the moon that no one had contradicted him about! 😃 If offered the chance to go to the moon…I don’t know if I’d take it. I have too much for me here on the earth to be willing to take the risk, I think-- I’d only go if my husband was going with me, for example. That said, being able to see the earth from space is something I would dearly love to do, short of going all the way to another celestial body. All the original astronauts have said that seeing the Earth from a distance (Jim Lovell was struck by how he could cover it with his thumb) was a profoundly spiritual experience-- not necessarily religious, but it changed their entire conception of the scope of things. I think that’s something all of us could use. And count me as another person who thinks the voyages to the moon were the greatest achievement of humankind. Actually, I’d probably place Apollo 13 above that, because that proved that even when confronted with circumstances beyond their control and outside any of their meticulous plans, those folks could still bring all of their extensive experience, creativity, and sheer tenacity to bear and get things to turn out right in the end. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-to-the-moon/472398/54 "2008-11-13T09:12:53Z")
One question: Will the TSA be inspecting my luggage? Not that this would prevent me from going, its just that I need to know what I can pack. (Can you think of anything better than getting a good buzz on and just _floating_ there? **After** joining the 100 mile high club, of course.) 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-to-the-moon/472398/55 "2008-11-13T16:35:52Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Hell yes, I’d go. Even if it meant certain death. Seriously? Yes I would love to go to the moon, but no, I could not stay very still…I have some weird form of mild claustrophobia where I have to be able to move my arms and legs all around at any given moment. _I can’t have them restrained._ It makes riding on airplanes a pain in the…legs and arms. So, if one has to be pretty restrained in close quarters, I would have to pass. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-to-the-moon/472398/56 "2008-11-13T18:52:06Z")
I couldn’t do it. I am afraid of flying and the idea of being way out in space would send me into some sort of severe panic. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-to-the-moon/472398/57 "2008-11-13T21:58:37Z")
How great would it be if all of us who answered “yes” could go together? Space Dopefest! ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-to-the-moon/472398/58 "2008-11-13T22:05:57Z")
Hellz yeah! ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-to-the-moon/472398/59 "2008-11-13T22:07:39Z")
> [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](#): > > How great would it be if all of us who answered “yes” could go together? Space Dopefest! [Then we could finally answer the question](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1042/has-anyone-ever-had-sex-in-space)! ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-to-the-moon/472398/60 "2008-11-13T22:10:12Z")
I’d go to the moon, but I don’t think I could bring myself to do a deep sea diving craft expedition thingy. The water freaks me out more than space. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-to-the-moon/472398.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-to-the-moon/472398.md?page=4)